Why Recording Engineers are GULLIBLE MORONS!

[@FatNorthernBigot]

I use egg boxes, and found them to be very effective. They're full of eggs, and I throw them at every bass player who doesn't practise.

[@charlesrocks]

😂

[@u4yk]

At least, you're using them properly.

[@FatNorthernBigot]

@@u4yk they don't defuse sound, but they can contain delicious eggs.

[@mortusdominus]

Just imagine for a moment a bass player appearing and correcting you spelling.

[@FireEnder9.]

100 likes noice

[@stormpaul3066]

I was in full cap and gown graduating from college after studying audio engineering and other media when I made the realization "wow I really picked the field with most notoriously broke and flakey clientele... I think I screwed myself". I was lucky enough to pivot into doing IT and now I do recording on the side for my bands and some clients. Gotta say, I like how that turned out for me.

[@soundman1402]

Same situation here! It's truly a labor of love.

[@fabian7463]

Same for me. I actually wanted to pursue music but went through the video game route. Took me a while to land a game design job but now that I am making money in video games I can spend on affordable gear ' Harley Benton...' I still believe skills over gear are important.

[@soundman1402]

Game sound design! I did that for a few months, on the first Halo game. That was a dream job if ever there was one! I came in to work and would just tell myself, "I can't believe I'm getting paid to do this." Sadly, my career in video game sound design ended with that job. :(

[@fabian7463]

@@soundman1402 why did it end? My dream job would to work for a studio that makes toony games like Banjo Kazooie or something along that style. I have been in this industry over 2 years and to me, work is work. My passion is still doing art projects of styles that I enjoy. Working for a company can set artist boundaries... But unless an individual starts his own studio, then you cant really control the work flow.

[@soundman1402]

It was a temp contract job because the release schedule was ambitious and they needed help. Only three or so months on the job wasn't attractive enough to other game studios, so apply as I might, I never got hired.

[@jordanhillis1315]

“Learn to use every piece of equipment you have to the fullest before buying more” I feel personally attacked 😂😭😭

[@morphine0000]

I've long accepted the fact that if I spent as much time practicing guitar as I have reading about gear, John Petrucci would be out of a job. As it stands, maybe one day I'll serve him fries with his burger.

[@joolz666]

Me too. And what is this "manual" thing he keeps mentioning? 🙂

[@sparella]

​@@joolz666 I think he means we should stop using automation and move faders manually along with the brewing coffee over an open flame.

[@morphine0000]

@@joolz666 I think it's part of the boxes where our gear comes in. I hear people talking about it every now and then.

[@dudustickytricks]

@@joolz666 It's short for "Man, you will get bored reading this."

[@McThumpenstein]

AS A BASS PLAYER.....I love your bass player jokes. Keep them coming.

[@mankepoot9440]

As a bass player: what jokes?

[@kingjbone1]

He's not wrong.

[@WIMPY86]

Good spirit!

[@ashleyjohansson230]

I only play gibson les pauls and I love his gibson videos.

[@hatempire]

4:45 - Crom, it's me again... please, shine Glenn's mind through the pathway of doing a full video about the "loudness war", that would be really interesting and informative, for real.

[@dennisnothstein1311]

Ah,this video took me back to 1996 when the band I was in recorded our cd. Four guys in their early twenties in a studio for the first time,I can only speak for myself but I was nervous as all hell. The studio engineer was so patient with us. I think we took 3 or 4 tries to get our first song played through n its entirety. Then we relaxed a bit and we did an 8 song cd,recorded and mixed in 8 hours. We would have taken longer but that's all the time we could afford. Good times. Thank you Glenn for letting me relive my band days without having to deal with club owners ripping me off,drunk "fans" coming on stage and fucking up our equipment, live sound guys being drunk and all the other b.s.

[@nicm9600]

Glenn is like the motivational speaker version of those restaurants where the staff is intentionally mean to you. Part of it is a bit but deep down you know he’s right about your shitty practices. I haven’t watched in quite a while and I needed a bit of a reality check. Thanks Glenn!

[@joeyshuster8569]

Working at one of those is my dream job🤣

[@Stefan-]

I wonder, does he perhaps live in a van down by the river....

[@squirelova1815]

@@Stefan- "Jack SQUAAT!!" and "La-Di-Freakin' Da!"

[@timhunt2500]

Hell yeah! Throwing biscuits across the room at holiday!

[@spddiesel]

My wife and I have both run dj and karaoke over the last 15(her)-30(me) years, and we're two completely different people when it comes to gear. I still have my setup from the mid 90's with an upgraded dual cd system from around '05, because physical media matters. I'm a firm believer of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." She, on the other hand, is more of a "if it's broke, Ray can fix it and I can get it cheap" type. The woman has never seen a light, speaker, or some other unnecessary piece of horseshit that she didn't want. I swear to Buddha I have a dozen pairs of speakers in my garage out of commission because of a blown cone in at least one of the set, because it took me forever to convince her not to over drive the bass. One good thing about her hoarding, I'm learning guitar at age 50 (I can't afford a Corvette) and she accidentally bought a Peavey 4x12 half stack thinking it was a sub-woofer, so all I need is a head and I got some new shit, lol.

[@SpectreSoundStudios]

Just make sure that Peavey doesn't have Sheffields in it... YECH!

[@spddiesel]

@@SpectreSoundStudios oh, once I figured out what it was I've been thinking about what speakers to throw in there. And after watching a lot of your reviews, I'm further from a decision than ever before, lol. I decided to wait until I upgrade my ability to "passable" before diving down the guitar speaker rabbit hole. Plus I'll have to tread carefully, because I don't need to fill the other half if the garage 😉. Until then, my neighbor (who got me into taking up the instrument) gave me some old gear he had packed away in his garage, and it included an '89 Peavey Bandit 112 with the Scorpion 12" speaker. "Who do you Love" sounds amazing (that's my skill level at the moment 🤣) 🤘🎶🍻

[@soundman1402]

Why don't you fix/recone the blown out speakers? And also, if she's going to buy all the new shiny, at least point her in the right direction... "This sub, right here, would work great for your setup!" For DJ and live performance amplification, I'm using EV ETX speakers. They're excellent, and I didn't pay full price for any of them because EV has a Reverb store where they sell B-stock stuff. Just a thought.

[@spddiesel]

@@soundman1402 I plan on it dude, just got a lot of irons in the fire right now. She has toned it down some in the last couple years after I agreed to a set of QSC powered 12" PA speakers with a separate powered sub. It's a lot easier on her to set up and tear down with those than it was with the older gear; that's one thing I'll give the newer stuff is that it's a lot lighter. I just need to go thru and see what's worth repairing for resale and what's just plain obsolete. Or I'll build a dance club in my garage, lmao.

[@blindeddy2220]

Ummm, 1: Most ( and all pro-level) gear have clip indicators. Don't red-line clip your amps and you won't blow speakers unless something out of control happens. 2. If you do somehow blow a speaker - it can happen to everyone - speakers can be re-coned Do you not have a relationship with a competent tech repair guy? They're worth their weight in gold. Find one.

[@tarkett8529]

You really don’t need expensive gear especially these days, many massive hits were recorded on relatively cheap gear, the difference is the quality of the writing, the quality of the performance, experimentation to find something new and interesting and an experienced mixing and mastering engineer with a good ear honed over time.

[@SpectreSoundStudios]

Even most entry-level audio gear these days is oustanding! ..except for Klark Teknik. :)

[@CreativeMindsAudio]

Most hits these days wasn’t recorded, it was likely created entirely in the box. 😂

[@tarkett8529]

@@CreativeMindsAudio too true sadly the soul has been ripped out of it.

[@tarkett8529]

@@SpectreSoundStudios That Klark Teknik was smashing

[@CreativeMindsAudio]

@@tarkett8529 yup 💯!

[@fatdaniel5023]

Tip #6 I definitely felt that. The learning curve and cost risk of maintenance for vintage gear is high. I'm happy that a lot of digital emulations of hardware are available to get an idea of what they would sound like without going broke doing it. Just like Cab IR's offer me the ability to get a snapshot of what different speaker and mic combinations would sound like without having to own all that gear to do so.

[@magnustorque5528]

Dude (pardon the colloquialism)...you have missed your calling (or have you....I mean here you are doing it). Your volubility, sardonic wit, and sophistication in all things "music industry" come together in what can only be described as brilliant. Cynicism meets practicality meets humor meets useable knowledge. There is an extremely high "honesty" factor going on with zero punches pulled. Really great stuff !

[@metal_helm]

@4:51 thank you for stating this. This is why I ALWAYS compare remastered albums (louder) to their original counterparts (quieter) at EQUAL volumes on my channel. If you didn't, you would always pick the remaster as sounding better, when that is not necessarily the case.

[@fatmatrow]

I'm in a legit production program at my college and one of the first classes you have to take is acoustics and psychoacoustics so you actually know how to set up a control room(and how sound works in general, as well as how we perceive it). The final project for that class is designing one based on a room in your house. I went a step further and actually did everything in my project to my studio room.

[@JC-fj7oo]

I can't remember the guy who said it, but he was talking about in the 80's "fix it in post" meant that you stay behind until you can do it right, while everyone else goes to the pub. Interestingly, there are times where analogue is undeniably better. Film cameras have easily 10x the resolution of the best digital cameras for a given film/sensor size. Tubes have a unique tone that solid-state amp manufacturers have been trying to replicate for decades. Old speakers/mics can have serious character that is impossible to replicate(Glenn has a whole episode about how important speakers are for tone)... But it won't replace writing a good song. When I listen to my favorite songs I'm not thinking "oh man, listen to that tape tone!" Half the time it's on my shiggity phone/laptop speakers anyway. AND IT STILL ROCKS! Because the song is great. Something to think about when you feel like you need new gear: The best recording studio in the 70's would have given their left nut for Reaper and a tascam/focurite/behringer interface. No excuses.

[@fredrikolsson9249]

“Garbage in is garbage out!” Thank you Glenn I’ll steal this for the “you can fix it in post” comments I always find in podcast recording forums. 😂

[@zeevshaff]

Glen I took your advise and made my own panels for about 50 dollars a panel It was really fun and easy and feels incredible to build it myself. And the sound quality in my my room has increased tenfold

[@isomatic]

3:15 - That was me but i identified the problem, ran out of space in my studio and stopped getting gear. None of it was a waste though. I like all the pieces I got and am not getting anything else until I fully learn how to use them all.

[@jfo3000]

This one was over the top hilarious Glenn! Your comedy is improving faster than your guitar skills.

[@dokterkarel]

Pickups: I was just playing some riffs on my Ibanez RG721RW wich stock pickups. Without changing the amp settings I then changed to my Schecter Banshee with a Seymour Duncan JB in the bridge, and the difference was VERY noticeable. Yes, the difference between EMG 81 and 60 is not that big, and the difference between some pickups is very small, but depending on which pickups there are also much larger and noticeable differences between them.

[@timhunt2500]

I have 13 miles of 35mm Sony master recording tape. Left over from 1990s studio. This stuff is super flammable, stored in a black plastic barrel. Got every thing we could get in auction. Miss the job, grateful to have lived it. Never stop learning! God speed.

[@RyanWright]

"Louder is more gooder" This needs to be a shirt.

[@SpectreSoundStudios]

hmmm. Possibly!

[@psh_]

Sounds like something uncle Ben Eller would say.

[@Jacksmusicshack]

Gooder 🤣

[@MichaelBLive]

Love this trend I am seeing on music channels where the entertaining presentation also comes with well thought out information. Awesome Glenn!

[@redcomn]

I'm a synth guy, guitarist and recording stuff junkie..... Yea I know it's a triple treat

[@darksu6947]

Are you ok, bro?

[@u4yk]

@@scatteredtothewinds6662 same. I'm just hoping all the gear I have will go vintage by then.

[@audiomix1969]

There was one thing that was magical about recording to tape with analog gear, and that was the players on the other side of the glass. Those that could afford to record in those studios either had their arrangements down or had serious chops and could play from charts. I always rolled tape on rehearsal/soundcheck and it was usually pretty damn good. Take 1 was great, take 2 was amazing, and take 3 was the "let's have fun with this" take. Digital makes things more affordable and easier, and therein lies the problem.

[@charlesrocks]

13:03 is huge. Once I learned how to track instruments correctly, it enhanced the quality of my recordings immensely.

[@leothemetal]

I am guitar player, bedroom sound engineer, and I played bass in my last three bands. Oh, yeah, I'd like to figure out how to use tape machines some day. And then comes Glenn and takes all the fun out of process.

[@DaleThePig]

1:37 That's great Glenn 😂

[@Jason31256]

Thank you. Your colorful language and straightforward demeanor is a breath of fresh air in a world where people are now afraid to speak in case they offend someone.

[@SpaceCaptainCreations]

I always binge your videos when I’m down and you perk me right up, keep on raging brother!

[@lodougherty]

Sound treatment is important, but also just learning your room gets you equally as far. Joey Sturgis mixed a record that went multi gold in a room with zero treatment. If I recall it was just a crappy garage type room with maybe one blanket in the corner. Knowing your room and your speakers is also key.

[@greylocke100]

Hey Glen, how about a video on the basic levels of sound treatment for the studio?

[@jeremysmetana8583]

Some spot-on writing in this one. I think "Juggling Custard" is a great band name. I look forward to their first release, "Post-Death Pre-Mathcore Jazz Fusion Djent Odyssey."

[@maladamedialabs4214]

I like the video editing where you have different head shots. Makes it visually more interesting.

[@chipznmusic]

Anyone else notice Glenn's computer monitor glitched out at 6:12 ?

[@craigshewchuk9018]

I spent like 200 on foam and got it used on Facebook. I literally got 2x2, 2in thick, studio sound proofing, the best one, for the cheapest. All because I found it used from someone who ran out of money and didn't get the studio set up at all and had to sell it all off. Now to find bass traps for those corners! Also don't forget the ceiling! You can make the glen panels, those are awesome too, I made a few of those too. It hard to have a few grand of sound proof, especially when a marshall itself is a few grand. But most people have no money put into sound proofing so it is a step ahead

[@UncleBenjs]

None of it is sound proofing. It is absorption. Don't expect it to absorb very much low mids or bass, where you will find the most acoustic issues. When shopping for bass traps, don't get foam ones, they won't work. You need rockwool.

[@SpectreSoundStudios]

Foam isn't "sound proofing"

[@craigshewchuk9018]

@@SpectreSoundStudios it's professional sound proofing acoustic treatment foam from a company that installs studios in new England. I'm sorry to disagree, it is sound proofing. Its literally what it is sold as, acoustic treatment foam. It's not very fluffy, it's the super dense one. I can see why a lot of your commenters are assholes lol Have a good day Glen! Sorry about using the wrong choice of words, won't happen again

[@craigshewchuk9018]

@@SpectreSoundStudios also like I said, I made the panels you showed how to make in the video, I know your busy, but I think you only read the first sentence of my post and thought I'm stupid so commented that

[@sparella]

​@@craigshewchuk9018 Good on you for putting in the work to make those panels. Are you satisfied with your treatment results?

[@wordsmith451]

These videos are necessary therapy. I am guilty of being a gearslut. Of course, I'm not changing my behavior, but your rants do help inspire enough self-loathing to get me through my day.

[@ethai1]

What you said about forums is also true in KZbin. I've encountered videos from producers and engineers like "do ___, not ____!" Or "don't use ____, it's bad!" And whatever "proof" they present, was just making the wrong conclusion. I've seen it a lot with bedroom producers, it works as long as they speak with enough confidence.

[@DevinThe242]

I’m glad you had the tape portion and “garbage in…” parts next to eachother, because I’ll bet they’re somewhat interlinked. Tape probably forced a lot of people to do what they SHOULD keep doing, even when editing is easier now than it was in the 70s.

[@karoloandria]

The section about sound treatment reminds me I been curious what difference the environment makes in a recording. Glenn I'd love to see a video comparing the sound of different environments, a garage vs. a church and such.

[@stinnaplaysmusic]

I have found myself multiple times looking at stuff I wanted for months, suddenly thinking to myself "well, I don't think I need this". Which has saved me lots of money. I have money to regularly buy stuff that I could find useful, but I don't. I only buy when I can genuinely justify to myself why I should buy it.

[@glenngarma6407]

parallel vs serial connection is impprtant only in powering the speakers. in serial, a power fail in one affects them all. in parael, you can still use the others...as for the resistance, i would say it's more to do with volume than tone

[@DudeMcGuybro]

Wait, volume doesn't equal tone, but what about the Fletcher Munson effect and how instructors always tell you to change the volume of your mixes to check for undesirable frequencies? am I being a bass player about this? or can someone break it down into "lower frequencies" for us?

[@petegaslondon]

The Fletcher Munson curve's exactly the reason - louder means you hear more of the frequency extremes! That said, you should listen on everything - box speakers, car speakers, loud soft .. And MONO - er, right Glenn? ;)

[@joerojas5448]

Thanks Glenn for affirmation that not being on forums. Like you said, it has information but it's all practicing your skill. I used to feel bad about not being on Discord. As you mentioned, I've been honing my skills with multitracks to get better with mixing. Don't back down from being honest and good comment on the White Sea Studio channel about the Distressor. (I use the Tukan Version).

[@Holly44735]

Your reviews are part of my daily routine. Thank you for the much needed morning laughs 👑✨

[@sparella]

In case everyone is suddenly inspired to install acoustic treatment (yeah right), something that worked well in my experience was alternating acoustic panels and mirrors along the front wall of the rehearsal / drum room. The mirrors are for "monitoring" stage presence during rehearsal.

[@jimkanter4180]

I thought the mirrors are to keep the lead singer occupied.

[@sparella]

@@jimkanter4180 😂

[@HoosierLine]

True.....Volume Doesn't Equal Tone but volume equals a better efficient speaker due to SPL's. Works great live on stage but really isn't needed in the studio. Can always make a low power amp sound great with tone with excellent recording techniques in the studio and not having to use too much volume to make it happen. You are the recording Metal God Glen ! Always love watching your videos !!

[@nialldunsmore8336]

Invested in a bunch of ASC tube traps to treat my home studio. It sounds pretty damn close to a several hundred thousand dollar mixroom for a fraction of the cost - Even if that cost was crazy expensive. It does give those who can't afford to build options though.

[@petegaslondon]

Getting on for a grand for the 16x3 - are solid state traps cheaper ;)

[@adrian.tabirca]

Great episode. I've got tears in my eyes

[@soundman1402]

Hey Glenn, I bought a pair of Austrian Audio CC8 SDCs to use as drum overheads. They sound outstanding in that role! They're a bit on the dark side, but they're very smooth on top so they'll "take EQ well," as the saying goes. I'm very pleased. Good bang for the buck there!

[@kevinberg84]

Volume may not equal tone, but according to the Fletcher-Munson curve you do hear a different EQ curve at different volumes, so...

[@richgleadall3884]

one of the best videos yet!!!! awesome glen. loved this one.

[@PingeMusic]

Thanks for a great and true video. Seen many gear junkies trough the years. 🙂Be safe and skilful. Pinge

[@darthshuster551]

Good ol Glenn, choosing violence before I can even manage to make my cup of coffee

[@dudustickytricks]

To the fullest? For real? Crap. Well, it's back to the ol' Tascam 424 Mk II, for me, then. Still got some learnin' to do.

[@66fitton]

Love this! One of your more entertaining rants!

[@GhostOfLorelei]

I do think there was one thing missing from this but I’m not sure how to phrase it properly to work in the video. Something like: If you can’t hear the difference in the mix, there isn’t a difference. IE., there are a lot of recording “engineers” who will play their guitar in isolation and point out incredibly subtle differences when using different pieces of gear. Then they throw it in a mix and, for the life of me, you just can’t tell the difference at all. Yet they’ll spend thousands of dollars on “better gear” that creates the tiny tiny differences that never show up in a mix. It’s…kinda crazy. But I swear it’s how some of the big gear manufacturers get by.

[@CreativeMindsAudio]

Honestly back in the early 2000s and late 90s, when i started, yeah you had to have good gear. Pres on interfaces sucked and it made a real difference. Along with clocking, converters, etc. it all kinda sucked. That entry level interface’s pres meant sounding like muffled crap. And you HAD to ‘fix it in post’ to sound half way decent. Now a days, budget interfaces sound incredible and what used to cost 1k+ in sound quality for 2 channels you can get for like $100. Hell back in the day i had tons of local bands not take me seriously because my gear wasn’t up to par with other home studios. I had tweaked shit out in post to make it sound half way decent, while that band had better gear, they ended up always fucking up the mix in post. They literally remixed/mastered an EP they did this to recently😂. But yeah back in the day bands looked for good gear, because it was so limiting back then. Now they look for personality and production skills because gear and engineering skills mean nothing anymore.

[@DJPhantomRage]

Or, you could have a gear addiction, no studio setup and boxes of cables and crap all stored in different areas of the house... ooooooOOoOh.. Shiny, I might need that one day... This video had me rolling in tears of laughter and sadness.

[@GhostOfLorelei]

Hey! HEY! Glenn, I thought this show was family friendly! I had to cover the ears of all my babies during the second point of this video! HOW DARE you even IMPLY I don’t need every single one of my precious gear babies! They are all blessed individuals that I spent waaaaay too much money on and I won’t have you insulting them! JESUS GLENN!

[@jeromeclemente3672]

"A firepit is an Analog Microwave." That line reminded of that Electric Bike and Acoustic Bike meme. LOL 😂

[@nickx1754]

"A fire pit is just an analog microwave." That's one for the books! XD

[@yourdrummer2034]

I knew it was my gear that sucked,and not me!! Thank you!!

[@myopicautisticmetal9035]

Mornin Glenn, hilariously honest as usual!

[@schism6600]

Love your channel bud. Keep schooling the world I know it can be frustrating

[@BikerEgg1]

For acoustic treatment, have you considered acoustic ceiling tiles attached to the walls?

[@cvrfkoh]

Studio treatment versus time spent buying and collecting new gear...guilty with no chance of parole...:)

[@darksu6947]

Off to the gulag with you!

[@RyvenProductions]

That shirt is fantastic and yes, I picked up a KT-76 on the cheap. It's not a horrible compressor and if you want to hear what it sounds like on bass. I did a Bogren Digital contest a while ago and used it on that track. If you can find one for 150 bones or less it's worth it. Don't buy it new, save up another 300 bones and buy the Warm 76 clone.

[@Emily_M81]

I literally bought Savage Grooves from you last night and you post this LMAO (I was very, very guilty about sound treatment for an embarrassingly long time >_>)

[@pattayaguideorg]

tough love in its purest form!

[@genevai2893]

juggling custard = great band name

[@crankydragon]

I tried working with cat's but with no thumbs I couldn't find one that could hold a pair of drumsticks!

[@LaurenPassarelli]

Smart & hilarious as usual. You rock.

[@WIMPY86]

You keep the keys to the Bentley on the floor?! Mine are somewhere between the couch cushions...

[@TheCatGoesRawrMusik]

I got to record a drummer yesterday was able to keep time was groovy and everything It made my fucking day

[@darksu6947]

I don't believe you!

[@TheCatGoesRawrMusik]

@@darksu6947 i didn't believe it either till he actually started playing!

[@darksu6947]

@@TheCatGoesRawrMusik It's a Christmas miracle!

[@TheCatGoesRawrMusik]

DON`T CLICK ON THE TELEGRAM LINK!

[@JesaiaLowejko]

As a home recording musician I find it easier to just record straight to the computer and using mixing headphones, avoiding all pitfalls my lack of experience, acoustic environment and potentially angry neighbours may pose.

[@joolz666]

"Volume does not equal tone" ... no, wood does. 😈😈😈

[@AmericanNationalist852]

🔥 🪓⛏️🗡🏹 🔥

[@allwaizeright9705]

My favorite reaction - "We want it the SAME - but DIFFERENT" - Either THEY DON'T KNOW EITHER or they are trying to BLOW YOU OFF...

[@Doctoraccoon]

Just saying but I blame you that I'm recording engineer nowadays. Just joking but because of you I have learn so match of this work so thank you for doing this videos. They are realy helpful and when I have some anoying band here in my studio, I just so one of you'r videos to them and most of the time they are not anoying anymore.

[@ironblast5]

Sound treatment doesn't make alot of sense for most home project studios that don't have a live acoustic drum setup and that are doing most things in the box and di'd in my opinion at least as long as you don't a have a super live space for your monitoring for that there are affordable workarounds you can use. I'd just get a corner set aside with a PVC frame and moving blankets then get something like a kaotica eyeball for the vocal mic. For drums I use edrums to control with a sample library like superior drummer. Now if you have the means and space to do live drums and room mics then yes by all means get the best sound treatment you can afford for the space just my opinion and 2 pennies worth.

[@SpectreSoundStudios]

Moving blankets are horrible for your mix room.

[@UncleBenjs]

Those eyeball mic things make vocal recordings sound boxy and combfiltered

[@sparella]

Acoustic treatment is required for accurate monitoring while mixing, not just for recording.

[@IDGAF_PLUS]

I was never motivated by money or prestige. Back in 1992 fresh off of a 4 year college degree I wanted to get into sound engineering because of my love of music. Plain and simple. Unfortunately, I went to Full Sail. Fortunately, I bailed after less than 6 months. But I never became a sound engineer.

[@alrecks619]

$100,000 gear, $400 set of speakers, and lack of acoustic treatment.

[@PooNinja]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽😂

[@SpectreSoundStudios]

Sounds about right!

[@alrecks619]

@nubswithguns or alternatively, a 2nd gen Intel Pentium/AMD bulldozer system with 16gb ram

[@RaducuPlayzGuitar]

"yeeee haaaaw, cousin fuckers!" I laughed so hard I slipped out of my chair 😂

[@scumballer6656]

Glenn's delivery of that overused bassist joke made me lol harder than it should have.

[@random-guitar]

An extra ten points to Glenn for saying “dumb dumbs”!

[@pradyumnamukunda9222]

Hey Glenn, could you do a review of the Waves Nx Virtual Mix Room plugins and give your opinion whether it would be a decent alternative to Studio Monitors and Acoustic Treatment?

[@jerwolf8961]

The Law And Order bite killed me!

[@fstudiosmusicandvideo7795]

I think you may be right about this. So many upstart bands and "recording engineers" just think that if you have all this crap you must be really good. But, if you really want to be good with all that crap, you actually need to know how to work with it. And, if you can't already make a great sounding mix with what comes with your recording set up to start with, the extra crap is still just going to make your mix sound like crap... Because you just can't help but mix crap! I have spent most of my time learning how to make a great sounding mix with just what came with my recording system. Then I bought a few pieces of extra gear to complement what it can do. And that's all I need to make a great recording and mix... Well, that and a great band to start with. After all, if it's crap to start with, you're just polishing a turd.

[@vpovince1001]

Great stuff and hilariously done ! Kudos

[@MetalMan1245]

Too true, too true.

[@66fitton]

Gleeeeeeeeeeenn! How do we (three piece band who seriously wants to discuss recording with you) get in touch with you to discuss a possible arrangement and send you demos? This isn't a random choice, we know who you are and think it would be a great fit! Please let me know. Cheers!

[@matthewparent4231]

I think this is the best video you’ve put out thus far!!!! On a side note, do you have any advice on particular types/methods of acoustic treatment? Other than the traditional homemade panels like you made in that how to video, is there any corner traps or ceiling mount stuff I should consider?

[@creapis]

Speaking of Klark Teknik; Is the 2A-KT also shit like the pultec clone?

[@DBIIIStudios]

As per the title, I used to have a full studio complete with tons of rack units, 10 guitars, and lots of other gear.. my music sucked. After some bad family issues, I wound up selling everything I had and focusing on other things. Fast forward a couple years now all I have is a laptop and 2 guitars. Now that I’m not constantly worried about “tone” and the “perfect sound”, I’ve done a tone of research on actual composition and have been writing the best music of my life and better written songs sound better than a polished pile of shit.

[@COTG666]

It's amazing how a lot of people can't even use EQ correctly. When I help someone get started in recording I tell them, don't add any effects until you get the EQ right. EQ is step one. Obviously a good sound room and equipment is important, but I've heard some great equipment sound really bad because of poor EQ.

[@hello3627]

If you mix on slate vsx headphones and only close mic guitars, bass, and vocals - how necessary is sound treatment? Non-rhetorical question.

[@tntisbased]

Speaking of gear, Gibson just released a 6 and a half grand Dave mustaine V custom, will you sacrifice food for a month and buy it or have you learned your lesson?

[@tonyd.944]

Another great video. Found the camera angle from your left hand side a bit weird though. It always feels like you're directly communicating to "us" but the new angle makes it feel a little less person to person. Stupid post? I dunno, lol.

[@SpectreSoundStudios]

Just trying a new idea...

[@tonyd.944]

@@SpectreSoundStudios Totally get it. And not meaning to sound like a dick :P

[@NebulonRanger]

5:46 Well, it *can* transform into a sausage. Then you've REALLY got great tone!

[@johnnyrosenberg9522]

I only buy stuff when there's something I need (or at least want) to do, that I can't do with my current stuff.

[@jimhart4158]

"Juggling custard" is a fantastic mental image. Made me laugh.